Sean, I would be happy to participate on the panel. Gerald
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly...@gmail.com> wrote: > Many thanks Christian for this update > > Yes I too saw that although Walter (the Sugar Digest [1]), myself (on > the lists [2] plus the olpcnews piece [3]), John (on the lists [4]), > JT & Mike (on the lists [5]) all asked for content, there was little > or no reaction. I believe we need to ask more concretely, i.e. "for > the X page we need a Y visual" - even if this means a list of > requests. I can't help but feel that the day the new site goes live > there will be complaints, while assistance now will make the site the > best it can be! > > Another next step is to assemble a teacher panel to assess the site > usability. The Marketlab study [6] clearly showed that teachers are > not finding the information they need on our current sites, and > coupled with the high technical barriers to installing and configuring > Sugar means we discourage too many teachers from even trying > Activities. Teachers, contact us please to participate in the panel! > > thanks > > Sean > > 1. http://walterbender.org/?p=431 > 2. http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2011-March/012783.html > 3. > http://www.olpcnews.com/software/sugar/teachers_help_us_improve_the_sugarlabs_website.html > 4. http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2011-April/012959.html > 5. http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2011-April/012843.html, > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/dextrose/2011-April/001234.html > 6. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team#MIT_Sloan_MarketLab_Study > > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Christian Marc Schmidt > <anyth...@christianmarcschmidt.com> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > John and I wanted to give you a brief update on the status of the > > website. For the last few months we had the benefit of working with > > two RIT students, JT and Mike, who helped us take initial steps in > > launching a new and improved public-facing website. With their help, > > we identified the shortcomings of the current site and the > > opportunities for (a) better articulating the Sugar value proposition > > and (b) keeping the site current with events and progress made by the > > developer community. > > > > There were a few learnings along the way: While JT and Mike were able > > to gather and produce a fair number of assets, it was far more > > difficult to get all the content we had hoped for and which we know > > does exist. This means that we will be reaching out to the community > > again in a short while to help us fill in the missing pieces. In the > > meantime, thank you to all of you who helped to provide content in the > > first round! > > > > Next steps are to make further traction on the UI design in order to > > give us a scaffold to populate with content as it comes in. This will > > be happening over the next few weeks, and we'll keep all of you > > updated when there are opportunities for feedback. > > > > Thanks, and more to come, > > > > > > Christian > > > > -- > > anyth...@christianmarcschmidt.com > > 917/ 575 0013 > > > > http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com > > http://www.facebook.com/christianmarcschmidt > > http://www.linkedin.com/in/christianmarcschmidt > > http://twitter.com/cms_ > > Skype: christianmarcschmidt > > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >
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